A SARB Statement The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) received the forensic investigation report into the affairs of VBS Mutual Bank (VBS) from Advocate Terry Motau SC on 5 October 2018. This report was in pursuance of Advocate...
PBM South Africa’s largest newspaper, The Sunday Times, has taken an extraordinary step of declaring a fleet of ‘investigative stories’ it published about eight years ago as misleading and inappropriate. In an editorial published on Sunday,...
Too much time has been lost and in the process, ‘the rats and mice have been feeding’ on the movement’s glorious history and achievements By: Ujuh Reporter A lot is being offered in the way of...
By: ProBonoMatters South Africa’s new Legal Practice Council (LPC) has been largely constituted after voting by eligible practicing lawyers in a move that promises to change the face of the country’s legal profession. The standing LPC is...
PBM Have you been ill-treated by an attorney in their line of duty. You can lodge a complaint against that attorney with the Law Society of South Africa. Here follows a brief outline issued by the...
David Robinson, Edith Cowan University This article is part of our series of explainers on key moments in the past 100 years of world political history. In it, our authors examine how and why an event...
By: Ujuh Reporter Ex-employees of petrochemicals giant, Sasol, are seeing red due to what they see as an unjust exclusion in the winding down of the Sasol Inzalo B-BBEE transaction and in the establishment of the...
By: Sibonelo Radebe Petrochemicals giant, Sasol, is facing a rising tide of protest from its former South African employees who feel robbed after they were excluded from benefiting in the winding down of Sasol’s 10 years...
Ujuh Reporter Sensitive client data in the hands of global web services firm, Hetzner, may have been compromised in the latest attack discovered last week. This data includes names and email addresses of Hetzner client, phone...
By: ProBonoMatters As from December 2018, companies that fail to submit their income tax returns will be slapped with hefty penalties, ranging from R250 to R16 000 per month. That’s a warning issued by the South...
By: ProBonoMatters South African citizens can now avoid long queues associated with applying for identity and travel documents at the Home Affairs stations by applying for these documents via the internet. This is courtesy of a...
By: PBM The Competition Commission has been granted a right to scrutinise the controversial R500 million deal between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) of Hlaudi Motsoeneng days and pay television operation MultiChoice. This results from...
Community schools reach otherwise unschooled children. Ray Langsten Ray Langsten, American University in Cairo Many countries across the world have made promises of “education for all” – providing quality education to all children of school-going age....
Does your body give away if you’re lying or not? AP Photo/Edward Kitch Jessica Gabel Cino, Georgia State University Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual...
By: SATopShops Did you get an unexpected prompt to re-log-in into you Facebook account on Friday the 28th of September 2018? We did. If you also did get this Facebook re-log-in prompt, chances are, you are...
Bertus Visser, Chief Executive of Distribution, PSG Insure Your holiday home might be in a sleepy seaside town where crime is the last thing on your mind. But your insurer is likely to see it differently....
Thembisa Waetjen, University of Johannesburg A ruling by the South African Constitutional Court opens the way for decriminalising private use of cannabis, locally known as “dagga”. It marks a definitive shift in a century of notoriously...
Ujuh Reporter On the 17th of September 2018, Sasol Inzalo Public (SIPBEE) paid out about R1.3 billion or R85.63 per share (less tax) to its investors bringing to an end the life of this broad based black...
‘Fake food’ in South Africa: myths, misinformation and not enough data Foreign spaza shop owners are being accused of selling “fake” food. Shutterstock Jane Battersby, University of Cape Town and Gareth Haysom, University of Cape Town...
PBM The Student Representative Council (SRC) of Monash South Africa have launched an online petition that protest against the sale of the private university to a JSE listed private education group ADvTECH. They are concerned that...